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by nanis 5y ago
> Is rationing ... bad? Yes. When a good or service is always available to anyone who can pay the price, all one needs to do is find the money and one can get it. When prices are set artificially low, both current and long term go down w
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by nanis 5y ago
> To be eligible to live in the village, applicants need to meet three basic criteria: they must demonstrate financial need, have lived in Augsburg for at least two years and be of Catholic faith. ... checks church registers to ensure th
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Yes.
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Showing up after the crime has been committed is not the same as being around to deter crime.
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by nanis 5y ago
Nasty. > In the draft legislation, the U.K. government said the most popular platforms — "category one" companies like Facebook and Twitter — will be required to safeguard all journalistic material shared on their platform. &gt
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I don't know anything about NYC, but, normally, a police report actually involves the police writing down some names. So, one lives in a high crime area and one notices that the police are no longer around, one has strong incentives no
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by nanis 5y ago
> “While we cannot entirely rule out the effects of under-reporting,” the authors wrote, “our results show that crime complaints decreased, rather than increased, during a slowdown in proactive policing, contrary to deterrence theory.” O
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by nanis 5y ago
> The scientists found that civilian complaints of major crimes dropped by about 3% to 6% during the slowdown. 1. Why call the cops if you know they won't do anything? 2. Relatedly, why "snitch" when you know there won&#x2
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Society Will Never Be Free of Covid-19–It’s Time to Embrace Harm Reduction(cato.org)
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by nanis 5y ago
As is usual, the submission mentioned above has been flagged. Here's the article to which it pointed: https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2021/08/23/lets_st...
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by nanis 5y ago
Free movement of labor (human capital) across borders has to be coupled with free movement of financial capital and free movement of goods as well as free internal labor markets meaning no minimum wage, no other barriers to entry into profe
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by nanis 5y ago
As a recent submission[1] points out: > Let’s stop pretending that the vaccines are a no-brainer for adolescents and children. > A rational parent — especially the parent of a healthy boy, given the far higher rates of myocarditis in
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Cross-neutralization of SARS-CoV2 by a human monoclonal SARS-CoV antibody (2020)(nature.com)
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by nanis 5y ago
> Sotrovimab, the newest antibody therapy, was developed by GlaxoSmithKline and Vir Biotechnology after a large collaborative study by scientists from across the nation discovered a natural antibody (in the blood of a SARS survivor, back
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by nanis 5y ago
Something else might be going on as I got the same results with or without `t=ffab`. `ffab` sounds like "Firefox A/B", but that is pure speculation. If you would like to remove that behavior, here is a suggestion: https:&#x2
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by nanis 5y ago
> The microservice managed and processed large files, including encrypting them and then storing them on S3. The problem was that large files, such as 100 Gbytes, seemed to take forever to upload. Hours. Smaller files, as large as 40 Gby
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by nanis 5y ago
> Data Synthesis Twenty-three seroprevalence surveys representing 14 countries were included. Across all countries, the median IFR in community-dwelling elderly and elderly overall was 2.4% (range 0.3%-7.2%) and 5.5% (range 0.3%-12.1%).
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by nanis 5y ago
> Conclusions: The protective effect of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection on re-infection is high and similar to the protective effect of vaccination. More research is needed to characterize the duration of protection and the impact of differen
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by nanis 5y ago
Here is an interesting story from the news[1]: > A 17-year-old ... was rushed to The Grange University Hospital earlier this month after testing positive for the virus - just three days after receiving her first jab. > The schoolgirl,
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Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) [pdf] (Australia)(parlinfo.aph.gov.au)
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by nanis 5y ago
Forget about admission, if they get in, they find the environment in which everyone but they get "A"s rather difficult.
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COVID19 Transmission Dynamics Among Close Contacts of COVID19 Index Patients(jamanetwork.com)
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Comirnaty (Pfizer Covid19 vaccine) EPAR public assessment report [pdf](ema.europa.eu)
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Twitter suspends Alex Berenson(alexberenson.substack.com)
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> The U.S. is projected to see nearly 100,000 more COVID-19 deaths between now and Dec. 1, according to the nation’s most closely watched forecasting model. But health experts say that toll could be cut in half if nearly everyone wore a
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by nanis 5y ago
* First, EUA was for a two-shot regimen. * Then, a booster after 8 months was proposed[1]. * Then, booster date was moved to 6 months[2] after second shot. * Then, the interval between second shot and booster shot goes down to 5 months[2].
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Taliban kill squad hunting down Afghans – using US biometric data(nypost.com)
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Slowly converging to MWF shots & house arrest for anyone who skipped one out of the most recent 131 shots or some such.
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From the perspective of the person who's been OK since the beginning, those numbers don't really matter. What matters is that they are fine now, they've been fine for a while, and now they are being coerced into taking an act
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> we see that he current 0-59 death rate is 0.2% I made a statement about the percentage of deaths among people over 50 (not death rate). Computing an IFR (infection fatality rate) is difficult because so many infections are unrecorded.

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